Day 157 of the Lower Puna Eruption, and...nothing.
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Euphoria continued yesterday with my TV tailgate of marrow, caviar and sashimi:
This feast was accompanied by a bottle of Stanford Chardonnay, hot sake and cold beer. The key to bone marrow is to first sear the small side of a beef shank at high temperature so that the marrow does not melt and leak out. The shank I purchased had a marrow as large as a marshmallow. Hmmm...something poetic about marshmallow marrow. The best I've had in my life, with the sauce of garlic slices in wagyu fat and the leftover sukiyaki with onions and shiitake mushrooms.
The Hawaii football team is enjoying an enchanted year. Last week, it took five overtimes to prevail over San Jose State. This week, at game time, it was announced that our quarterback, Cole Macdonald, who leads the nation in passing (2100 yards and 24 touchdowns, with #2 only at 14), was injured and would not play. He had taken all the snaps this year.
Chevan Cordeiro, who was a high school senior at St. Louis last year, and replaced Tua Tagavailoa, Alabama QB who looks good for the Heisman this year, made his college debut. The first three quarters showed Chevan's inexperience, but he engineered a final drive of 68 yards, ending with a desperation 38-yard touchdown pass with 1 minute 26 seconds left in the game to win 17-14. Wyoming actually made a comeback and could have won if the game ended one second later.
The hero of the game, and the most exciting player all season has been Kaimana Padello. Two years ago he walked on as a 6 foot 200 pound defensive end. He is now up to 223 pounds, but regularly pitted against defensive tackles who are 6'5" and 300 pounds. It's no contest. He quickly goes around them. Not that his two sacks in the Wyoming game were insignificant, but his continued presence in the backfield was confounding. His season began not in training camp but on the Big Island as part of the National Guard activated for the Lower Puna Eruption. When he returned in mid-August, he was shocked with a scholarship. Watch #96.
I received a note from Chase Heu, who manages those Morimoto restaurants in Honolulu, to please invite my blog viewers to their October 20 White Party, featuring Iron Chef Morimoto, cuisine, sake and karaoke. Only $100. I might go:
I woke up this morning to Van Cliburn on Classic Arts Showcase. I still vividly recall 60 years ago as a Stanford freshman when 23-year old Van Cliburn had recently won first place at some monumental piano competition in Moscow. Note Nikita Krushchev in the audience. To quote:
The first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 was an event designed to demonstrate Soviet cultural superiority during the Cold War, after the USSR's technological victory with the Sputnik launch in October 1957. Cliburn's performance at the competition finale of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 on April 13 earned him a standing ovation lasting eight minutes.[3][11] When it was time to announce the winner, the judges were obliged to ask permission of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to give first prize to an American. "Is he the best?" Khrushchev asked. "Then give him the prize!"[3][12]
I majored in chemical engineering mostly because of Sputnik. Sure, we remember the 1986 Reagan and Gorbachav Summit in Reykjavik, but it was Van Cliburn who I give original credit for ultimately ending the Cold War a third of a century later.
Born in Louisiana and reared mostly in Texas, here he is on opening day of the Texas Rangers 36 years after his triumph in Russia, three years after the Cold War ended. You might not have heard much about him, maybe because he was gay. Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. passed away at the age of 78 in 2013.
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Tropical Storm Michael in the Gulf of Mexico will become a hurricane and cross over the Panhandle:
Do you know what happens to hurricanes that move west and north after leaving Hawaii? They turn east and mostly become storms in the northwest (Washington, etc.). However former Super Hurricane Walaka is heading for Alaska.
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